Mail sends from wrong address?

Hi,
This problem has happened twice recently, and goes something like this:
I have a few accounts on Mail.
My main account ("A"), I use for most things. Today, I sent an email from "A". This email shows in the outbox for account "A", and shows at the top of the email as having been sent from "A"; but when the reply came back from the recipient, they had replied to account "B", and the original email shown attached to the bottom of this reply showed my email had actually originated from account "B".
Make sense?! Essentially I send the email from A, Mail shows this as having been sent from A, yet it has actually been sent from B.
FRUSTRATING!
Any ideas how I can fix this? I use different email for personal/professional etc., and it's inappropriate for professional recipients to be getting my personal address.
Thanks,
Mike

I'm having this problem, and Erie's "information" is not helpful as advice.
I have a personal Gmail and my school account which is also administered by Google. Both would have the same SMTP server, obviously. Both worked fine with no errors when I used Thunderbird.
Bought a Mac, use Mail, now I'm getting professors responding to my personal emails.
In fact, slightly off topic, I'm finding that the much mythologized Mac is not nearly what it's cracked up to be. I've had recurrent extensions problems, permissions problems, network problems, have had to reinstall iTunes half a dozen times (because iPhone suddenly stops syncing) and yesterday the computer just wouldn't boot.
I'm entering this from my PC as I have to completely repair and reinstall the Mac from the system disc. I think Apple just does a better PR job controlling their flaws, and there is a much smaller pool of people to complain, and if you can afford and pay for a Mac, you probably can afford a Time Capsule, so it's easier to recover; and you feel justified in your investment, therefore you don't admit to anyone that you have Mac problems.
If I'm going to have computer problems either way, next time I'll have them on a $350 PC instead of a $900 Mac.

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